Sessions

Session 1:

• Robins – Stable engrams and neural dynamics

• Ryan et al. – Engram cell connectivity: An evolving substrate for information storage

Session 2:

• Levin – Life, death, and self: Fundamental questions of primitive cognition viewed through the lens of body plasticity and synthetic organisms

• Gershman et al. – Reconsidering the evidence for learning in single cells

Session 3:

• Gomez-Lavin – Working memory is not a natural kind and cannot explain central cognition

• Barbosa et al. – Pinging the brain with visual impulses reveals electrically active, not active-silent, working memories

Session 4:

• Andonovski – Memory as triage: Facing up to the hard question of memory

• Dasgupta & Griffiths – Clustering and the efficient use of cognitive resources

Session 5:

• Aronowitz & Lombrozo – Learning through simulation

• Kind – Learning to imagine

Session 6:

• Gold & Glanzman – The central importance of nuclear mechanisms in the storage of memory

• Bédécarrats et al. - RNA from trained aplysia can induce an epigenetic engram for long-term sensitization in untrained aplysia

Session 7:

• Sims & Kiverstein – Externalized memory in slime mould and the extended (non-neuronal) mind

• Ginsburg & Jablonka – Epigenetic learning in non-neural organisms

Session 8:

• Dasgupta & Gershman – Memory as a computational resource

• Gershman – The molecular memory code and synaptic plasticity: A synthesis

Session 9:

• Symposium extravaganza, featuring:

  • David Colaço and Jonathan Najenson

  • Sarah Robins

  • Michael Levin

  • Antonella Tramacere

Session 10:

• Boyle – The mnemonic functions of episodic memory

• Boyle – Episodic memory in animals: Optimism, kind scepticism, and pluralism

Session 11:

• Bronfman et al. – Shaping the learning curve: Epigenetic dynamics in neural plasticity

• Ginsburg & Jablonka – Evolutionary transitions in learning and cognition

Session 12:

• Bernecker – An explanationist model of (false) memory

• Michaelian – Towards a virtue-theoretic account of confabulation

Session 13:

• Biderman et al. – The role of memory in counterfactual valuation

• Biderman & Shohamy – Memory and decision making interact to shape the value of unchosen options

Session 14:

• Werning – Predicting the past from minimal traces: Episodic memory and its distinction from imagination and perservation 

• Werning & Liefke – Remembering dreams: Parasitic reference by minimal traces in memories from non-veridical experiences

Session 15:

• Work-in-Progress Session

Session 16:

• O'Sullivan & Ryan – If engrams are the answer, what is the question?

Session 17:

• Buckner – From Deep Learning to Rational Machines, Chapter 4 (Memory)

Session 18:

• Caravà – An exploration into enactive forms of forgetting

• Caravà – Enactive memory

Session 19:

• Openshaw – Remembering objects

Session 20:

• Halina – Unlimited associative learning as a null hypothesis

(Bold indicates that the speaker presented their work)